John Hillcoat
John Hillcoat ( born 1961 in Queensland) is an Australian screenwriter and film director.
Life and career
Hillcoat grew up in Hamilton, Canada. He was known as a director of music videos and worked, among other things several times with the Australian musician, writer and actor Nick Cave and the British synth pop group Depeche Mode together.
In 1988, his first feature film came in Hell Welcome to the theaters for the next Hillcoat Nick Cave and three other authors also wrote the screenplay. The film was shown at the 45th International Film Festival in Venice in the " International Film Critics Week", where she won the prize of the students of the University " La Sapienza ". In addition, the Australian Film Institute award for the best for scenery ( Chris Kennedy ) recognized " Welcome to hell " to.
Hillcoat's film The Proposition - Deadly offer in 2005 won the Australian Film Institute for Best Cinematography, the best equipment, best original soundtrack and best scenery.
His film based on the novel The Road by Cormac McCarthy celebrated at the Toronto Film Festival 2009 premiere and ran from November 2009 in U.S. theaters.
2012 presented with Hillcoat Lawless his fourth feature film finished, which is based on Matt Bondurants historical detective novel The Wettest County in the World ( 2008). Tells the story of three brothers (played by Shia LaBeouf, Tom Hardy and Jason Clarke) is smuggle the time of the Great Depression and Prohibition in rural Virginia moonshine and must thereby resist against authorities and rival gangs. The film, occupied in other roles with Guy Pearce, Gary Oldman, Jessica Chastain and Mia Wasikowska, received in 2012 an invitation to compete in the International Film Festival of Cannes.
The frequent portrayal of violence in his films based Hillcoat with his view that violence is a large part of society and of life, which is why he wanted to explore it. He tries to portray violence as a bit chaotic, which could come to break and avoid their glorification.